Q & A: 'Eagle Vs. Shark's' Taika Waititi and Loren Horsley
Taika, you've made short films before, but what was it like working on your first feature?
TW: It's completely different to the short films. [It's] longer obviously, so you quadruple all the stress and the hours of work and the tiredness, but it also is deeper. You get to go deeper and really explore things.
There are already comparisons between this film and Napoleon Dynamite — was that an influence?
TW: We saw it after we had written the script and it wasn't influential. It wasn't even really in our minds when we were shooting. There just wasn't the time to think Oh, better not do this because it might be like Napoleon Dynamite. I think that we like to maybe take more inspiration and influence from something like La Strada, or even like Love Serenade, [which] for me was like a big influence. I really love it.
LH: It was so for me, it was huge. Miranda Otto in that part, I really admire her for that.
TW: Yeah, Loren actually purposely didn't watch that film because she didn't want to get influenced.
LH: I watched it years before and I didn't want to — I just wanted to wait. Like I can't see it.
What are you guys working on now?
TW: I'm working on finishing a script that I'm hoping to shoot by the end of the year, which is based on one of my earlier short films and that's set in New Zealand and it's about kids in the '80s.
LH: At home, we've got kind of a film collective, so again, I'm trying to find good characters that we can create and play one day.
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